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Kirkliston Early Years Centre provides additional Nursery and Primary 1 facilities for Kirkliston Primary School, dedicated to early years learning with a focus on play and outdoor education.

The design is a single storey L-shaped building with two wings - Nursery and Primary 1, linked together by a shared dining space. Open plan playrooms and classrooms are designed to allow collaborative learning through play, with direct covered access to the outdoor space. Simple vernacular forms and use of exposed timber structure provide a connection with the village aesthetic of Kirkliston. This important link with the local area reflects a domestic sense of place for children coming into a new setting as they start their educational journey.

Sustainability was fundamental to the design. The simple forms create an efficient form factor with south-facing canopied recesses providing solar shading to prevent over-heating. A fabric first approach was taken with enhanced u-values and airtightness – this, alongside a MHVR system minimises energy and heating demand. A CLT & Glulam structure reduces the embodied carbon of the project and is exposed internally creating a natural and comfortable environment.

Kirkliston Early Years Centre provides additional Nursery and Primary 1 facilities for Kirkliston Primary School, dedicated to early years learning with a focus on play and outdoor education.

The design is a single storey L-shaped building with two wings - Nursery and Primary 1, linked together by a shared dining space. Open plan playrooms and classrooms are designed to allow collaborative learning through play, with direct covered access to the outdoor space. Simple vernacular forms and use of exposed timber structure provide a connection with the village aesthetic of Kirkliston. This important link with the local area reflects a domestic sense of place for children coming into a new setting as they start their educational journey.

Sustainability was fundamental to the design. The simple forms create an efficient form factor with south-facing canopied recesses providing solar shading to prevent over-heating. A fabric first approach was taken with enhanced u-values and airtightness – this, alongside a MHVR system minimises energy and heating demand. A CLT & Glulam structure reduces the embodied carbon of the project and is exposed internally creating a natural and comfortable environment.

Michelin Scotland Innovation Parc (MSIP) is an ambitious joint venture between Scottish Enterprise, Dundee City Council and Michelin, created in response to the closure of Michelin’s Dundee tyre factory in 2020. It aims to drive innovation in the Scottish economy and address the global climate emergency.

Fully accessible to the Dundee community, The Innovation Hub is the focal point of the Parc that aims to be the place where the earliest stages of innovation and entrepreneurship happen.

“One of the best design decisions made on the project was the use of an exposed mass timber frame – a combination of cross laminated timber (CLT) and Glulam structure,” said Guillem Arraez, project architect at Holmes Miller.

Paisley Town Hall is a £22m refurbishment of a historic, Grade A listed, 1882 Neoclassical Town Hall building in the historic centre of Paisley. The Clients aspirations were to substantially renovate and upgrade the existing building into one of the finest live performance venues in the West of Scotland. The completed building, in addition to the main events space, includes a dance studio, café bar, cinema, wedding and banqueting halls.

By combining a variety of key local amenities, the objective was to promote greater footfall and public engagement within the town centre. The design approach focused on the sensitive restoration of the heritage fabric. We were rigorous and careful that each intervention was sympathetic to this beautiful and grand building.

At Holmes Miller we greatly appreciated the trust placed in us to develop this Grade-A listed property and as such we were rigorous about every proposal made. Our conservation methodology has been to painstakingly analyse the materials and details of the existing building and to only select interventions which are harmonious with the original design. The building is a fine example of Neo-classicism therefore any new interventions must embrace symmetry and order. To give one example among many; the original lighting was formed of blown glass spheres (gas lanterns) - we had to ensure that the new wall lighting proposed aligned with these original fittings. New wall lights were then installed symmetrically and sympathetically into spaces to take account of historic colonnades, wall panelling, historic precedent position, and plasterwork detailing.

Paisley Town Hall is a £22m refurbishment of a historic, Grade A listed, 1882 Neoclassical Town Hall building in the historic centre of Paisley. The Clients aspirations were to substantially renovate and upgrade the existing building into one of the finest live performance venues in the West of Scotland. The completed building, in addition to the main events space, includes a dance studio, café bar, cinema, wedding and banqueting halls.

By combining a variety of key local amenities, the objective was to promote greater footfall and public engagement within the town centre. The design approach focused on the sensitive restoration of the heritage fabric. We were rigorous and careful that each intervention was sympathetic to this beautiful and grand building.

At Holmes Miller we greatly appreciated the trust placed in us to develop this Grade-A listed property and as such we were rigorous about every proposal made. Our conservation methodology has been to painstakingly analyse the materials and details of the existing building and to only select interventions which are harmonious with the original design. The building is a fine example of Neo-classicism therefore any new interventions must embrace symmetry and order. To give one example among many; the original lighting was formed of blown glass spheres (gas lanterns) - we had to ensure that the new wall lighting proposed aligned with these original fittings. New wall lights were then installed symmetrically and sympathetically into spaces to take account of historic colonnades, wall panelling, historic precedent position, and plasterwork detailing.

Paisley Town Hall is a £22m refurbishment of a historic, Grade A listed, 1882 Neoclassical Town Hall building in the historic centre of Paisley. The Clients aspirations were to substantially renovate and upgrade the existing building into one of the finest live performance venues in the West of Scotland. The completed building, in addition to the main events space, includes a dance studio, café bar, cinema, wedding and banqueting halls.

By combining a variety of key local amenities, the objective was to promote greater footfall and public engagement within the town centre. The design approach focused on the sensitive restoration of the heritage fabric. We were rigorous and careful that each intervention was sympathetic to this beautiful and grand building.

At Holmes Miller we greatly appreciated the trust placed in us to develop this Grade-A listed property and as such we were rigorous about every proposal made. Our conservation methodology has been to painstakingly analyse the materials and details of the existing building and to only select interventions which are harmonious with the original design. The building is a fine example of Neo-classicism therefore any new interventions must embrace symmetry and order. To give one example among many; the original lighting was formed of blown glass spheres (gas lanterns) - we had to ensure that the new wall lighting proposed aligned with these original fittings. New wall lights were then installed symmetrically and sympathetically into spaces to take account of historic colonnades, wall panelling, historic precedent position, and plasterwork detailing.

Kirkliston Early Years Centre provides additional Nursery and Primary 1 facilities for Kirkliston Primary School, dedicated to early years learning with a focus on play and outdoor education.

The design is a single storey L-shaped building with two wings - Nursery and Primary 1, linked together by a shared dining space. Open plan playrooms and classrooms are designed to allow collaborative learning through play, with direct covered access to the outdoor space. Simple vernacular forms and use of exposed timber structure provide a connection with the village aesthetic of Kirkliston. This important link with the local area reflects a domestic sense of place for children coming into a new setting as they start their educational journey.

Sustainability was fundamental to the design. The simple forms create an efficient form factor with south-facing canopied recesses providing solar shading to prevent over-heating. A fabric first approach was taken with enhanced u-values and airtightness – this, alongside a MHVR system minimises energy and heating demand. A CLT & Glulam structure reduces the embodied carbon of the project and is exposed internally creating a natural and comfortable environment.